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Fact of the Week: Rents Remain Out of Reach for Many Renters
Source: Out of Reach 2016, National Low Income Housing Coalition.
View ArticleWhite-Segregated Subsidized Housing Poses Fair Housing Concern
A recent report by the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota Law School, The Rise of White-Segregated Subsidized Housing, discusses the emergence of subsidized housing...
View ArticleNLIHC Submits Comments on Proposed PHA AFFH Assessment Tool
NLIHC submitted comments on HUD’s proposed Assessment Tool to be used by public housing agencies (PHAs) to conduct an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) in compliance with the new Affirmatively...
View ArticleHUD Releases New ACS 5-Year Tabulations
HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division released special tabulations of the American Community Survey (ACS). This newly released resource provides the number of households with a housing problem by...
View ArticleHouse Committee Holds Hearing on Moving Families Out of Poverty
The House Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing on May 24 titled “Moving America’s Families Forward: Setting Priorities for Reducing Poverty and Expanding Opportunity.” A number of witnesses spoke...
View ArticleHouse Panel Holds Hearing on Budget Reform
The House Budget Committee held hearing on March 25 to renew its efforts to reform the congressional budget process. The hearing, the first in a series, was marked by disagreement between the parties...
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House Appropriations Committee Passes FY17 THUD Spending Bill
The House Committee on Appropriations approved its FY17 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) spending bill by a voice vote on May 24. As we reported last week, the...
View ArticlePRRAC Provides Guidelines on Promoting Fair Housing in HTF Allocation Plans
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) published a paper, “National Housing Trust Fund: Promoting Fair Housing in State Allocation Plans,” providing guidelines to ensure that states...
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NLIHC Releases Out of Reach 2016
NLIHC released its Out of Reach 2016 report on May 25. This year the national two-bedroom Housing Wage, the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment while...
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NLIHC’s Out of Reach 2016 Gets Major Media Coverage
NLIHC’s Out of Reach 2016 report has received major media coverage since its release on May 25, being cited in more than 100 news stories in the national and local media in just over a week. Reporters...
View ArticleFrom the Field: Arizona Doubles Funding for State Housing Trust Fund
The Arizona state housing trust fund, one of the oldest housing trust funds in the nation, will soon double its funding as a result of the passage of HB 2666, the “Governor’s Economic Opportunity...
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Mobilizing Voters Webinar
The final webinar in NLIHC’s 2016 Voterization series is “Mobilization: Getting Out the Vote.” The webinar will be held on Thursday, September 15 at 2:00pm ET and will provide attendees with the...
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Fact of the Week: States with the Largest Shortfall Between Two Bedroom...
Notes: The Two-Bedroom Housing Wage is the estimated full-time hourly wage a household would need to earn to afford a two-bedroom apartment at a HUD-estimated Fair Market Rent while spending no more...
View ArticleMedical Legal Partnership Interventions Improve Access to Safe, Decent,...
“Extra Oomph:” Addressing Housing Disparities through Medical Legal Partnership Interventions, a study by Diana Hernández at Columbia University published in Housing Studies, found that pairing legal...
View ArticleLegislation Would Eliminate Nearly All Federal Housing Programs
Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), a cofounder of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, introduced a bill that would eliminate nearly all federal affordable housing programs by consolidating them into...
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House Speaker Ryan Set to Release Poverty Plan
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will release tomorrow the House Republicans’ policy proposals for combatting poverty in America. In February, Speaker Ryan tasked House Republican leaders to develop a...
View ArticleHousing for Homeless Students Act Introduced
Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced the “Housing for Homeless Students Act” (H.R. 5290), which would allow full-time students who are or recently have been homeless to qualify for rental...
View ArticleLawmakers Urge GSE Recapitalization
Representative Mike Capuano (D-MA) and 31 other Democrats sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mel Watt urging them to reassess the Obama...
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Point of View: by Diane Yentel, President and CEO
Our country faces an alarming gap between the housing needs of our nation’s poorest households and what is available and affordable to them. The result is rising family homelessness in cities across...
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